GEORGIANA STARLINGTON - Paper Moon LP

Highly recommended.

After hearing K-Holes - ex-Black Lips - one would never have guessed that members also make up this band. Paper Moon has a whispy, country-tinged sound, evoking scenes of a long-gone, dusty, spooky Old West.

What may come as most surprising here is the incredibly clear, yet tortuously sparse instrumentation presented on this debut LP, with a seductive backdrop of breathy nuances, all humming along to a long forgotten cowboy lullaby that does an impeccable job at achieving the elusive state of inner peace.

Like Johnny and June Carter Cash picking through the Velvet Underground's songbook, or if the Gun Club and Mazzy Star met in some alternate universe and cobbled together a collection of hazy death ballads for the future generations, this debut LP is a pinnacle of quietly perfected dreamy pop which will move mountains.

A massively textured album, produced perfectly and capturing a real transcendent time and place feeling in each song, it's deadly only in it's beauty, and that's a thing we're not too used to.